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Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

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Description for Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Paperback. In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people. In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Through discussions that link literature's essential qualities to social theories of modernity, Lloyd ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223729
SKU
V9780812223729
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About Lloyd Pratt
Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews for Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Pratt seeks to reanimate time as plural, fragmented, and rich with multiple narrative possibilities, which the notion of a singular, national time forecloses. This is an ambitious goal, and Pratt does a persuasive job of reorienting the reader's sightlines; his research is impeccable-all in all a fine book. -American Literature Lloyd Pratt's Archives of American Time is an ambitious, ... Read more

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